Pinstriped tool box movie#
Pinstriped tool box series#

Lets hope more tools get saved just like the cars…….!!! Paul Bragg also has quite a nice collection of tools he uses also and his shop is pretty amazing and you can see why his metal work is top notch….!!! After buying the matching shrinking hammer I had no spare money to even go out on a date with girls. Because some I have had from day one, And I still have the first Sykes Pickavant body hammer that cost me a whole weeks pay check in the 1990’s. I personally have a emotional attachment to my tools. They had given him a tool box and he had striped the tool box so much it looked like the car Barris had done when he left him with a car to do and when he came back looked like he had done way more then was originally asked to do.

Pinstriped tool box movie#

When the guy came around to pick up the Snap-On Tool chest they guy was the owner who bought Von Dutch’s tool box from the WARNER BRO’S movie studio when he died.

Snap-On did not offer a tool chest until 1939.

Pinstriped tool box series#

late 1940’s Series tool box that I did not need as I was up grading to the 1940 K.L.R. In 2009 I had an old a Snap-On tool chest that was the top half to the K.L.R. Rod also did an amazing job striping my new tool chest….!!īrad Masterson has a great display of Barris tools in his shop also, If only we could decipher what cars these tools were used on and what cars they repaired after woulds, I think Rik would have another life time of article’s to write here on the CCC. Now it hangs above my Snap-on Tool chest with pride and joy. While Rod Powell moved from his air port BVLD shop in Salinas C.A I had asked him long ago if I could have his original Morgan knocker set off his wall for my own use…….Not only did he keep his word after many years of begging him but he even pin striped it for me. Rod was so impressed with this box he did, He went and did one for himself.! So he agreed and we started with a wooden box from the 1800’s and Rod did a great job and it’s were I keep my Pinstripe brush’s just like Von Dutch. In 2004 when Von Dutch’s pinstripe box sold for an amazing amount I asked Rod Powell if he could do a box similar. And asked Rod what he was doing with it…!! To my amazement he pulled it out and proceed to tell me the story of this amazing little teal blue/green box. Tho I was lucky enough will snooping among his stuff I was able to spy it in a corner of his cupboard. In a book Rod Powell still has the very first tool box he ever pin striped…! Never been seen by any one only for a photo in his book. Rod Powell of SALINAS C.A is next inline to Von Dutch and is the master flamer and he can still hold a straight line after all these years…. Some of these tools get sold and are lost forever, For example Von Dutch’s original pinstripe box sold at auction for $320,000 in 2004. Some even got into fender benders and come back to have there fine lines repaired by these metal masters so they can grace the streets once again. These tools are the last thing that touch these wonderful Kustom cars before they hit the streets with there new owners. Brad Masterson has a very impressive collection of original BARRIS TOOLS used by the BARRIS Bros themselves. I love trying to collect and save tools off these Kustom guys who shaped the cars we all love today. What makes me so interested in this subject is each tool tells a story just as much as the person who built the these kustom tools and the car it was used for its self. I must say I wanted to collect them for my own shop because some times these tools are over looked as scrap.

His tool collection is quite large and around his work shop there are all kinds of 1 off made tools for a job only needed once left laying around his yard. His started his metal shaping bench with holders and tools hanging off long ago and he just kept adding to it over the years…. He explained to me that some were old Ford axels used because they were already hardened and perfect for metal shaping.

When visiting Gene Winfield’s shop on the other side of the Tehachapi pass in the Mojave desert I was really intrigued by Genes awesome collection of home made metal shaping tools and table. Every car guy has his prized metal shaping tools some home made some bought and the that special place you keep them.